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Today concludes Black History Month. But for Democrats, February, once again, has been Black Amnesia Month. Members of the party that claims to be the best friend of the black man do their very best to entomb their misdeeds, injustices, and crimes against blacks in an Orwellian memory hole. Here are just a few of the ugly things that Democrats have done to blacks, and hope no one will remember:

The Democratic party supported slavery from its inception in the 1830s until it split over the issue in 1860. In January 1865, 100 percent of House Republicans supported the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. Among those who voted, 78 percent of House Democrats opposed abolition.

Democrats Horatio Seymour and Francis Blair ran for president and vice president in 1868 on this general-election campaign slogan: This is a white mans country: Let white men rule.

Democratic President Woodrow Wilson segregated the previously integrated facility beside the White House, now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Source: The Chicago Defender, October 15, 1932

Beginning Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1916, the toilets in the state, war, and navy department buildings will be allotted for use as toilets...For Women...For White Men...[and] For Colored Men, read the actual segregation order. It was signed by none other than the assistant secretary of the Navy, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Democrats sank U.S. Representative Leonidas Dyers (R., Mo.) Anti-Lynching Bill. This measure which would have made lynching a federal crime and shielded blacks from being hanged in trees passed the Republican-controlled House in January 1922. Outrageously, Senate Democrats filibustered it that November. And the lynchings roared on.

Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt nominated former Klansman Hugo Black to the Supreme Court in 1937. After letting his supporters claim that he never associated with the KKK, Justice Black eventually confessed that he had joined the Klan and earned a gold passport or life membership.

Democrats stood shoulder to shoulder for decades with the late U.S. senator and former Klansman Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.). As the Washington Post explained, Byrd recruited 150 Klansmen for the Crab Orchard, W.Va., KKK. His local chapter unanimously elected him Exalted Cyclops. Byrd wrote the KKKs Imperial Wizard in 1946: The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.

Democrats ignored all of this and embraced Byrd as their Senate leader as recently as 1989. Hillary Clinton called Byrd my friend and mentor. At Byrds July 2010 funeral, President Obama eulogized this hatemonger: It seems to me that his life bent toward justice.

Compare Democrats half century of solidarity with Byrd, an actual Ku Klux Klan leader, with their unbridled, race-fueled vitriol against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a non-KKK alumnus man who helped steer Klansman Henry Francis Hays into Alabamas electric chair.

Democrat Theophilus Eugene Bull Connor the ber-racist commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Ala. arrayed snarling police dogs and high-pressure firehoses against peaceful civil-rights protesters. When he wasnt busy oppressing blacks, Connor served as one of Alabamas two representatives on the Democratic National Committee.

Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Senator Robert KKK Byrd decried this measure on the Senate floor for 14 hours, as did other Southern Democrats. Senator Everett Dirksen (R., Ill.) finally mustered enough votes to break the Democrats filibuster, but Byrd and 22 other Southern Democrats still spurned Americas cornerstone civil-rights legislation. Nonetheless, the bill passed, and Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed it into law.

Democrats furnished ten of the eleven votes against Thurgood Marshall as Americas first black Supreme Court justice. These ten were joined in August 1967 by Senator Strom Thurmond (R., S.C.), a former segregationist Democrat who turned GOP. Despite recent liberal claims that Dixiecrats morphed into Republicans, Thurmond is the only prominent one who did. Notorious segregationists such as Governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas and George Wallace of Alabama and Senators J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and Albert Gore Sr. of Tennessee died as Democrats.

Democrats today frequently deliver this humiliating insult: Blacks are too feeble and benighted to present ID cards at the polls (although its apparently okay to demand ID of blacks at airports, banks, federal buildings, and even to buy anti-cold remedies).

Democrats claim that blacks are less likely than whites to carry ID cards. If so, why havent Democrats led the charge to secure every undocumented black American an ID card, to facilitate full participation in modern life? Instead, Democrats do next to nothing to empower the ultimate little guys blacks who lack ID. Rather, they deploy this vulnerable population as human shields against Republican ballot-integrity efforts. Meanwhile, Democrats routinely belittle blacks as too collectively pathetic to possess photo ID cards.

Senate Democrats unanimously opposed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. As an advocate and donor for school choice and educational excellence, DeVos has done far more than the average Senate Democrat to boost the life prospects of low-income black kids. However, these lawmakers masters in the teachers unions hate DeVos and her reformist ideas. So, on February 7, Senate Democrats all rejected her confirmation educationally abandoned black children be damned.

Democrats rarely admit to any of the above, and their bodyguards in the Old Guard media rarely bother them with any of these inconvenient truths. What a shame.

Henceforth, Black History Month and the rest of the year should include a much more sustained focus on the countless ways that Democrats have held down black Americans for centuries and still do.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with National Review Online.

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U.S. House candidate Brianna Wu, a Massachusetts Democrat, is worried that people will drop rocks from the moon that will hit the earth and kill people.

Wu, who gained notoriety after getting involved in the GamerGate controversy of 2014 and is now challenging sitting Rep. Stephen Lynch, tweeted that she isnt happy about SpaceXs plan to ferry private citizens to the moon by 2018, for reasons that will make your head explode.

She also made it abundantly clear that she has no idea how gravity works.

Wu has since doubled down on her earlier assertions that the moon is dangerous because you can fire a large rock from it and hit the earth.

For the sake of fairness, lets play along with Wus theory for a hot second. Lets say that the moon, which is an estimated 238,900 miles away from earth, could potentially become a tactical base from which asteroids or missiles could be launched towards our planet.

Oooh, scary.

But if someone did intend to destroy our home planet from space, they wouldnt need to send people to the moon to mine large rocks and build a really big slingshot aimed towards earth. It would be significantly cheaper and easier for someone to launch an orbital weapon into space that could rain missiles down on our planet at a closer range. Lucky for us earthlings, this kind of space weaponry has been banned for decades, thanks to a series of treaties dating back to the Cold War. Long story short, Wus concerns are very far-fetched and practically improbable, if not entirely impossible.

Wu isnt the only Democrat whos made an eyebrow-raising statement about physical reality. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) once said he was afraid the island of Guam would tip over and fall into the ocean if too many people were on it at once.

My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize, Johnson said.

That clip will never get old.

Hey Democrats, yall should probably rethink the whole we love science more than you schtick until you can figure out what gravity is and how islands are formed.

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MIDDLETOWN, Del. This is what democracy looks like.

Its been a chant that has animated marches and protests around the country since the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated president, but its been more aspirational than descriptive. On Saturday, in a state Senate district in Delaware that stretches from Middletown to Newark, the voices in the streets turned into votes in the ballot box.

In the most expensive special election in Delaware history a contest to decide which party controls the state Senate Democrat Stephanie Hansen was on track to annihilate her Republican rival on the back of extraordinary turnout.

The last time her opponent, John Marino, ran in this district, in 2014, he lost by just 2 points. Hansens 58-42 percent victory over Marino on Saturday ensured that Democrats will maintain control of the state Senate. It also notched a bigDonald Trump-era win for a new generation of Democratic activists shocked into action by the November election.

We turned back that win from Washington and made sure it wont hit Delaware, Hansen said in her victory speech Saturday night.

While Hansens campaign was focused on local issues, she saw a huge swell of support after nationwide Womens March protests on Jan. 21. Protesters, many of them out in the streets for the first time, have been turning their energy toward local and state politics. The first major election since the uprising was Delawares.

Hansens campaign received huge support. More than 1,000 volunteers worked during the course of the campaign, and about 500 many from nearby states showed up Saturday for Election Day. Hansen received more than 14,000 contributions of less than $100 from small donors spread all over the country.

Thats more volunteers than Ive had in nine elections, exclaimed state Sen. Dave Sokola (D), of Hansens Election Day workers.

Its overwhelming to see all these people, said Kelly Wright, a resident of Hansens district. Its making me emotional to see that people come take a bus two-plus hours away.

The turnout of volunteers made a huge difference as Hansen crushed her Republican opponent with unusually high turnout for a special election.

Lets take this movement national, former Vice President Joe Biden. a Delaware resident, exhorted to Hansen victory partiers Saturday night via phone.

Chuck Jackson, a Democratic district chair, said: Its really great the amount of people were seeing out. There is so much at stake.

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The state Senate had been split 10-10 since the 10th District seat was vacated in November by Bethany Hall-Long, who won election as lieutenant governor. Hansens win maintains Democrats 44-year hold on the chamber.

Hansens election was no sure thing. The district leans Democratic, but Republican Marino had performed well in previous elections. Hall-Long defeated Marino by 1 percentage point in 2014. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the district 54-41 over Trump. Democrats notoriously struggle in special elections.

The Democratic campaign was both aided and hindered by weather. At an unseasonable 70 degrees it was a perfect day for volunteers to knock on doors and for voters to head out to the polls. An afternoon thunderstorm, however, cut an hour out of a prime time.

While the race brought in huge numbers of outside volunteers, it was mostly fought over local issues like transit, the environment, education and the state budget.Erik Schramm, Hansens campaign manager, said the campaign had to juggle messaging to highlight local issues while harnessing the national mood to excite volunteers.

Groups like Sister District, Flippable and Indivisible helped organize volunteers. For many, this was the first time they had been involved in a political campaign.

Mitchaell Kawash, a volunteer from Brooklyn, New York, said he was canvassing for the first time because of the importance of state-level politics.

Nicholas Sewitz, who previously canvassed for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), joined Kawash and other friends from Brooklyn. Trump is politicizing the populace, Sewitz said.

Marsha Murray and Sarah Kimball came from Lower Manhattan to volunteer. For Kimball, it was her first time canvassing.

This is the election that matters, said Murray. It matters to everyone, not just in Delaware.

Ken Kidd, a volunteer who came from Manhattan, said the Womens March and rising activism has led to a resurgence in citizenship.

Volunteers were greeted at the Middletown campaign office in the afternoon by a steady parade of elected officials. Sens. Tom Carper (D) and Chris Coons (D) came by to shake hands and thank volunteers. Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long, the previous occupant of the state Senate seat, stopped at the office after canvassing neighborhoods.

Coons said he was encouraged by volunteers organization.

Volunteer Jim Yung, wearing a U.S. Senate baseball hat signed by Joe Biden,said: Make no bones about it, its made a difference.

Theres something fitting about so many New Yorkers making the trip down to make sure Marino didnt become a senator: He is, after all, a retired NYPD cop.

This article has been updated to include a comment from Hansens victory speech.

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Police have charged the leader of Albania's center-right opposition Democratic Party with inciting violence. If found guilty, Lulzim Basha would face up to three years in prison.

Authorities made the announcement late Saturday, saying Basha had "called on citizens to react violently against state institutions." According to police, he told supporters to "puncture car tires, break the glass" in protests that hit a new peak on Friday. "You want a fight?" officers quoted Basha as saying. "A fight it will be."

Hundreds have protested in Tirana, the capital, for the past week, calling for the resignation of the Socialist prime minister, Edi Rama, ahead of elections set for June 18. The protesters have occupied a tent in front of the main government offices in the capital.

On Saturday, Basha deemed his party's protests "grandiose, popular, democratic, total and peaceful," certainly not the "call for war" that police have accused him of. He warned, however, that his Democrats would "not stay like sheep, but hit back strongly."

'Free and fair'

Last week, Basha said he would boycott parliament to delay the adoption of judicial overhauls required by the European Union in order for Albania to begin accession talks. Albania obtained EU candidate status in 2014 and officials hope to open talks for joining the bloc by the end of this year. Last year, the Balkan country adopted a key judicial reform sought by the European Union to fight widespread corruption and organized crime.

Basha said the opposition would continue to protest until a caretaker government was formed"that would organize free and fair elections."

Prime Minister Rama had suggested that the opposition send lawmakers to assure the adoption of the judicial measures while continuing their protests out of session, but Basha dismissed the request and accused the government of deepening poverty and corruption in Albania. The Democrats have also so far rejected international calls to stop their boycott.

On Saturday, the Romanian government bowed to protesters' demands, saying it would repeal legislation decriminalizing certain forms of corruption, but demonstrators said the move is not enough. "Now were asking for the government to resign," Mihai Oprica, 31, an IT manager pictured above. "[These protests] can stop if they cooperate. If not, we will continue coming out every day."

Since the controversial decree was passed on Tuesday, more than 300,000 people have demonstrated nightly in cities across the country, with 150,000 gathering in Bucharests Victoria Plaza, shown above. Protesters chanted "We woke up" through the evening and many expected the largest demonstration yet to take place here on Sunday night, when citizens from rural areas will come to Bucharest.

"No way, no escape," reads a sign in Victoria Plaza. "Even if they cancel the decree, how do we know they wont try to pass another one next month?" asked Dan, 36, a state employee. "We have no trust in the government and they should understand that there [are] enough honest citizens that will make sure the law is followed."

On Saturday, tens of thousands marched to Romania's parliament building to create a human chain around the complex, which has a perimeter of about three kilometers. One of the protesters on site, Christian Nadu, 32, a corporate project manager, said, "By surrounding the Parliament, we are making a statement that this is our house, not theirs, and were taking over."

The one-month old cabinet of Romanias Social Democrat party (PSD) sparked the revolt Tuesday, by passing legislation that made official misconduct punishable by prison time only when financial damages exceed 200,000 lei (44,000 euros.) The measure would have ended the ongoing trial of PSD party leader Liviu Dragnea, who is convicted of electoral fraud, and was largely seen as a self-pardon.

Sorin Taban, 53, a technical manager from Bucharest, holds a sign reading, '1: Cancel Ordinance. 2: Go home.' He said he would not be satisfied until the PSD cabinet resigns. "The people have so little while politicians have big mansions with swimming pools and billions of euros in foreign banks. This kind of old communist leadership must go home forever!"

The ongoing anti-corruption protests are the largest demonstrations in Romania since 1989. "Before this, people didnt go out to protest because they thought they couldn't change anything," Nadu said. "This is the media's fault. The state channels have always suppressed big movements. Now the Romanian people know they have power and they will not forget this."

Florin Luca, 31, a telecom project manager (not pictured above) said the end goal for protesters should be installing an independent judiciary. "The government was trying to shut the mouth and break the arms of justice and we would lose everything we built over the last ten years. We need a judicial system that stands independent of political parties."

Author: Diego Cupolo

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